Poweramp adds Chromecast support and Google Assistant voice commands

After stalling in development for a few years, popular music player Poweramp has found the secret to rejuvenation again. The app got updated with a brand new interface in December, added Android Auto compatibility last month, and is now implementing a feature every media player should really have: Chromecast support. As a bonus, it also works with Assistant.

If you have a Chromecast target nearby, you’ll see the familiar icon on the top right of the player interface in Poweramp.

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Poweramp adds Chromecast support and Google Assistant voice commands was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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March 18, 2019

Google Assistant can read your screen and offer contextual info, without you explicitly asking it to

Google Assistant does a lot of things. This invisible artificial intelligence residing (partly) inside our devices can answer all kinds of questions, control our homes, help us plan our day, play our favorite music, and, with the addition of features like What’s on my screen and Google Lens, glean more from what we’re looking at and provide contextual answers. What you may not be aware of, and something I recently discovered (though it isn’t very new), is that Assistant can read your screen even if you don’t explicitly ask it to.

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March 15, 2019

Google’s Discover feed is becoming bilingual for more users

Google is embracing languages lately. Not only is the Assistant bilingual in dozens of language combinations now, but support for more dialects and variants is spreading through several of the company’s apps and services. And that’s the case with Discover (aka Google Feed). Bilingual support was mentioned when Discover launched, but only for English and Spanish in the US — although it was already working for English and Hindi in India.

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Google’s Discover feed is becoming bilingual for more users was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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March 15, 2019

Most Android TV devices should now be controllable by Google Home

Owners of Android TV boxes and sets have been asking one question ever since Google Home and Assistant launched: why can’t I control my device with voice commands from my smart speakers? It works for Chromecast, so why wouldn’t Android TV be supported? Worse yet, some things half-worked, like turning the TV on/off, and asking for YouTube videos or photos from your personal collection. But more intricate controls like volume, playing videos from other sources, pausing, or turning on subtitles, weren’t possible.

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Most Android TV devices should now be controllable by Google Home was written by the awesome team at Android Police.